Portland-spotting the Grimm previews Nov. 18

Grimm Episode #4 airs tonight on NBC. Have you started Portland-spotting the previews?

Preview: The Magic Touch - The historic Columbia River Highway bridge

Preview: A Warm Welcome - A house...
Preview: Quite the Charmer - Which Portland bar is in this scene? Is it Lincoln Restaurant on Williams?

Also expect to see:

• Multnomah Falls

Marquam Hill Lecture tonight @ 7:30

The November Marquam Hill lecture at OHSU takes place tonight at 7:30pm.

New Windows to Your Heart: Breakthroughs in Cardiovascular Imaging

Presented by: Jonathan Lindner, MD

Date: November 17, 2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: OHSU Auditorium, Marquam Hill Campus, Old Library Building

Dr Lindner will be explaining and showing new imaging breakthroughs in cardiovascular disease research.

And if you missed last month's lecture "The Hunt for Biological Mechanisms in Asthma", you can view the video online here.

Related post: Marquam Hill Lecture Series Starts Thursday (Oct. 20)

Obstructing the Streetcar

This happens more often than you would think. Unwitting person parks a too-large vehicle, or sloppily-parked regular vehicle, blocking the path of the Streetcar.

Streetcar is literally stopped in its tracks. Trimet driver gets out, circles vehicle, calls in reinforcements.

Parking patrol arrives, circles vehicle.

Holiday Food Drive(s)

Bring your canned food donations down to Umpqua Bank this week, Nov 14-19.

The goods will help out local nonprofit "Potluck in the Park" which serves a "free hot meal to anyone in need". They feed people every Sunday in O'Bryant Square.

Specific supplies needed are below. Looks like they're serving chili!

ALSO:

A food donation bin for the Oregon Food Bank is set up at March Wellness. Bring your non-perishable donations for the Oregon Food Bank, Nov. 3 - Dec. 15.

Mystery photo contest #2

Well, this is a different kind of mystery photo contest. The mystery is: What is This Guy Doing To the Granite Slab in E.C. Park?

The wood carpet was rolled in this morning, and a guy in a white van started doing some kind of work with an electric power tool. (I thought maybe he was etching his initials in but checked later and no sign of that.)

Here's a picture of the stone after he finished. I'm sure there must be a second part of this production coming soon.

Does anyone know what he is doing? 

New photos added on Friday:

It looks like he just removed and replaced the center slab. Now working on re-cementing it.